Trans bathroom bans are ultimately just a means of driving trans people from public life entirely.

This is not an exaggeration, the anti-trans movement literally aims to “eradicate [trans people] from public life entirely”, those are their words.

Here are some citations, numbers, and evidence to back up what you’re saying and why we should view trans bathroom bans as genocidal rather than about safety, like anti-trans activists claim:

When laws permit transgender people to access sex-segregated spaces in accordance with their gender identities, crime rates do not increase. There is no association between trans-inclusive policies and more crime. As one of us wrote in a recent paper, this is likely because, just like cisgender folks, “transgender people use locker rooms and restrooms to change clothes and go to the bathroom,” not for sexual gratification or predatory reasons.

Conversely, when trans people are forced by law to use sex-segregated spaces that align with the sex assigned to them at birth instead of their gender identity, two important facts should be noted.

First, no studies show that violent crime rates against cisgender women and girls in such spaces decrease. In other words, cisgender women and girls are no safer than they would be in the absence of anti-trans laws. Certainly, the possibility exists that a cisgender man might pose as a woman to go into certain spaces under false pretenses. But that same possibility remains regardless of whether transgender people are lawfully permitted in those spaces.

Second, trans people are significantly more likely to be victimized in sex-segregated spaces than are cisgender people. For instance, while incarcerated in facilities designated for men, trans women are nine to 13 times as likely to be sexually assaulted as the men with whom they are boarded.

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In society at large, between 84% and 90% of all crimes of sexual violence are perpetrated by someone the victim knows, not a stranger lurking in the shadows – or the showers or restroom stalls. But trans and nonbinary people feel very unsafe in bathrooms and locker rooms, though others experience relative safety there. In fact, the largest study of its kind found that upward of 75% of trans men and 64% of trans women reported that they routinely avoid public restrooms to minimize their chances of being harassed or assaulted.

from: https://theconversation.com/baseless-anti-trans-claims-fuel-adoption-of-harmful-laws-two-criminologists-explain-206570

These laws aren’t designed to protect cis women, they are designed to police gender (this impacts cis people too!) and eliminate trans people from public life.

was going to say, the invasion of Mexico (like 1848 or so) was naked greed and caused some countries to doubt the U.S. was serious about its supposed founding ideals, lol

Unsolicited advice, but you have to escape your - to make it not create a bulleted list.

Lemmy uses markdown for its formatting, and this means - is has special meaning, it is syntax used to create bulleted lists with.

For example,

- Isaac Asimov will look like:

• Isaac Asimov

If you want it to look like

- Isaac Asimov

you have to escape the - character with a \:

\- Isaac Asimov

The \ basically says “ignore the special syntax meaning of - as starting a bulleted list, and instead treat it as a literal -”.

leaded gasoline was fun, huh?

EDIT:

Someone else suggested it first, oops. Still, the video I linked is a fun deep-dive. I had no idea leaded gasoline is still used in small airplanes.

that’s a good point, but clearly what I meant by “aid” was FEMA aid - because she didn’t receive FEMA aid, she is in favor of dissolving FEMA entirely, without thought to what this would mean for anyone else

You’re right, falling short of expectations is a great justification to receive no aid at all. Or in the case of the article, being denied aid justifies denying everyone else aid.

Love hypocrisy dunking on Christians, but why do we care if Jack Miladin is a bad Christian and doesn’t read his Bible, I mean - is he a person of note, a public official, a politician? I can’t find anything on this guy, it seems like he’s just a rando.

I think it’s pretty wild that the body will just accept exogenous cross-sex hormones and start using them without issue.

EDIT: well, a caveat would be that cross-sex hormones would cause gender dysphoria for cis populations, and their brains don’t function as well on them, but I meant more like even a cis person’s body will grow boobs on estrogen or grow thick dark hair and develop stronger body odor on testosterone. It’s just wild the body is so adaptable, though maybe it shouldn’t be surprising since most people have all the hormones, just in varying amounts.

This is what I suspect too, I would expect that they will only come calling when they want you to stop costing them money.

This seems more likely - I am just suspicious about their role - what exactly are they helping coordinate, and what role do they actually play in this “coordination”? Hm, it does sound like I should call back, though …

Hm, why would they be reaching out like this, is that typical? Is it an attempt to get me to pay for the concierge program?

They claim to be from the health insurance company that I have, which is Anthem BCBS.

does she prowl the forests fighting bandits with her newfound møøse powers?

not sure why they would lie about that considering the other things they were honest about, lol

you also have to understand that this family tended to not hold back about sharing disparaging details, shame was an important lever for behavioral adjustment and even small mistakes were punished

I think it wasn’t her first time getting caught, tbh

weirdly I still feel guilty, but I think part of it is that I also was shocked by not understanding such a fundamental aspect of society, an aspect that is criminalized and carries such serious consequences. I had a step-aunt who was in my life much later, and she served actual jail time for getting caught stealing a Hallmark card for mother’s day from like a Walgreens. Her ability to find a job when she was stuck raising her baby as a single mom was compromised and the legal system really fucks you even for petty stuff like that.

Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

When I was a teenager I once started reading a newspaper and walked out of a grocery store, not realizing you had to pay for them. I was distressed and one of my parents called the store and explained the situation and we paid for the newspaper the next time we went in.

When I was a small child, I once ate a gummy between the bulk candy bins. When explained later that you aren’t just allowed to take the candy and you have to pay for it, I panicked.

Neither of these were intentional thefts, but maybe they count.

you know whatever lubricants they put on the drill-bit is not safe for consumption, that hotdog is contaminated now

You take your lööps for granted, Eurøpeans. Your Sïster grows weary.